Globe And Mail Order Diploma

Angry In The Great White North digs into the qualifications of Jack Mitchell, the expert used by the Globe and Mail to analyze the Grewal tapes.

Jack Mitchell is the owner of Computer Audio Engineering in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In an interview I found, he definitely sounds like he knows what he’s talking about (even if the interviewer didn’t — an “FFT” is a “Fast Fourier Transform” — a way of depicitng sound content as a spread over frequencies instead of a spread over time). On the other hand, he proudly lists the American College of Forensic Examiners as as his only professional forensic certification.
If the ACFE home page looks a bit cheesy, you’re not the only one to notice.

It’s a mail-order diploma racket.
MK Braaten kindly informs us in the comments, that you too can become a member of the American College of Forensic Examiners!

49 Replies to “Globe And Mail Order Diploma”

  1. This strike anyone as unsuprising? Just goes to show you can’t spell Liberal without an L,I,A, and R.

  2. He got his ‘degree” from the Sally Struthers School of Home Studies, and he’s being quoted as an expert? LOL. You can’t make this shit up!

  3. There is a chorus of experts that say Grewal manipulated the tape. Just ask Peter McKay.
    Why must you tear down the reputation of anyone who disagrees with you?
    Grewal is simply not credible nor is his bogus tape. Sadly, Harper’s defence of Grewal is costing him credibility. Peter McKay has bailed on Grewal so that he can be leader in 6 months when Harper is gone.
    Noticing that there is an L,I,A,R in Liberal is remarkably juvenile. Especially when conservative starts with CON. What’s next, we measure penis size? Pathetic.
    The real question is did Harper manipulate the tapes when he had them for 14 days. What was he doing with them for all that time? It is simply too conicidental that the 10 second technical glitch, which is now 16 minutes, removed the most damaging parts to Grewal. Grewal clearly was trolling for a cabinet post or senate appointment. He’s screwed.
    Not the Conservatives finest hour.

  4. Give Me A Break is right – are you saying that they had actors doing voice impressions on the tapes? Because there are some blips in the duplicate copies I guess we just ignore all the rest?
    That is like saying there were a couple of pages missing from a thousand page book therefore everything else you read in the book does not exist.
    How this logic passes anybody’s muster I don’t know.
    Lester B. Pearson had it right when he said:
    “If you can’t censor the truth, you shoot the messenger. Failing that you label him as inept. Failing that, you commence to make up stories.�All in day’s work for for a socialist.”

  5. “Why must you tear down the reputation of anyone who disagrees with you?”
    Well, we have to do it this way because the RCMP doesn’t work for us, and we can’t ask them to search his office and ruin his life.
    So we search for the truth in our own way.
    And leave my dick out of it.

  6. The ONLY thing the RCMP and the ethics commisioner need to look at with regards to the PMO and Dosanjh are the ORIGINAL tapes.
    Regarding the latest COPY of the ORIGINAL tapes, so far they appear to be in order: e.g. from the Globe:
    “The repeated cup of tea section is not on a new version of the recordings issued by the Conservatives last Thursday”.
    The ethics commissioner should review the copying errors and if shown to be deliberate that is a separate matter also deserving of sanction.
    Grewal has stepped down from his critic’s position. The three opposition leaders are correct, Murphy and Dosanjh need to step aside if responsibility is a word the Liberals can still spell.

  7. As a history lesson – it was bloggers who dug into the qualifications of the “expert” interviewed on 60 Minutes over the validity of the memos made famous by Rathergate.
    No one at CBS mentioned his specialty was signatures – yet they presented him as an authority on verifying documents.

  8. Politicians making deals and offers happens all the time. To get capture the discussions on tape is pretty rare. To crudely manipulate those conversations by removing passages or inserting words into the middle of a passage in an attempt to change the meaning of the conversation is truly bizarre. It certainly isn’t what one would expect from a party wishing to form the gov’t, but it is what many would expect from the Harper led Tories (i.e. amateur hour).

  9. Happydaze perhaps you could go over to blogscanada.ca/egroup and explain that to those people. Sheesh they’re hard to convince.

  10. YYC, you’ve quoted the Globe and Mail and say that according to them the original tapes appear “to be in order”.
    If you would have read all of their article today, you have have read this:
    **************
    In addition, a section of another conversation reviewed by Mr. Mitchell, in which Mr. Dosanjh asserts that any arrangement made with Mr. Grewal “requires a certain degree of deniability” appears to have been edited in from another conversation, as Mr. Dosanjh had alleged. But Mr. Mitchell said it would take further analysis to determine that with certainty.
    “The phrase is suddenly — the amplitude is higher, the frequency content is different, meaning that essentially there are more bottom frequencies in it. The noise signature is different, and on either side of that phrase, they’re the same.”
    That section is still included in the new version of the recordings available on Mr. Grewal’s website.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050606.wxtape06/BNStory/National/
    *****************
    These latest recordings available on Mr. Grewals website hardly appear to be “in order”. If Mr. Harper continues to assert these glitches were caused during the copying process, perhaps he’d care to tell everyone who copied them.

  11. Notice the Liberal trolls are on board again. They even spell Harper correctly.
    The truth is unnerving them; their spin machine is winding down to a sputter.
    The heat is on the Liberals; pour gas on the heat; poof ; the Liberals are imploding; it’s all Martin’s fault.
    Martin has to go; McKenna is after his post.
    Martin is going down, down, down.. gone into history with the albatross, “AdScam”, around his neck. Martin=AdScam. Say goodnight, Paul.
    Goodnight, Paul.

  12. If the RCMP have the original tapes why do we keep hashing over this Liberal Red Herring.
    Canadians are getting wise to the Liberal Smoke and Mirrors defence which is “Shoot the Messenger” and hide the smoking gun.
    Who cares? Inky Mark can tell the same story but didn’t tape it and he was not believed.
    Do Liberals think they can lie their way out of everything? Has it come to that – the best liar wins? I thought we got past that in the sandbox – did too, did not. Whaaa.
    Let’s me sensible adults here

  13. George: I never said that the Globe says original tapes are in order. They can’t say that because they don’t have them.
    I did miss the challenge to the newer copy at the bottom of the Globe article. Note that whatever Mitchell’s qualifications actually are he isn’t actually standing behind that conclusion, “But Mr. Mitchell said it would take further analysis to determine that with certainty”.
    As I stated if there are deliberately misleading copies afoot that will deserve sanction.
    The primary matter is on the original tapes and that will be for the ethics commisioner and the RCMP to sort out, not somebody with a certificate from whereever.

  14. Karl Marx noted that if you repeat a lie often enough, it eventually gets believed. It’s how socialist propaganda works.

  15. I for one have lost count of the number of different stories the Liberals have floated since this matter was raised, but:
    Look at the phone records:
    � Twenty-seven (27) Phone calls from Sudish Kalia (who claims Grewal approached him first) to Grewal;
    � Six (6) Phone calls from Ujjal Dosanjh (the guy who says he told Grewal �no� and then called back five (5) more times say �no� again and set up a meeting with Tim Murphy); and
    � Five (5) phone calls from Tim Murphy who claims no offers were made or deals discussed.
    Then go back to the start and follow the Liberal story.
    � There were no meetings with Grewal;
    � You have tapes? In that case there were meetings but Grewal approached us and we told him �no�;
    � You are hiding all of the tapes and only releasing a few moments of conversation and they don’t prove Grewal didn’t come to us;
    � Now that we have the tapes the tapes were altered;
    � The Prime Minister didn’t know about the meetings;
    � Ooops, the second release of tapes show Murphy and Dosanjh offering to let Grewal talk to Martin, so OK, the Prime Minister knew but told us not to make any offers;
    � Gosh, these tapes have at least as many holes as our stories, so they must be fake!

  16. “Karl Marx noted that if you repeat a lie often enough, it eventually gets believed.”
    I’ve usually seen the “Theory of the Big Lie” more frequently attributed to Joseph Goebbels. But the point is certainly the same.

  17. >If the RCMP have the original tapes why do we keep
    >hashing over this Liberal Red Herring
    The originals don’t matter at this point. Grewall was caught lying to the Candian public. Caught in a black and white, anyone can understand sort of lie- not the confusing type of lies from Adscam.
    Any sort of prosecution is probably down the drain as well. Who would the start witness for the prosecution be ? A proven liar. Your prime piece of evidence ? A recording from a tape forger.
    Either way, there is a good chance we can see Gewall taking the fifth at a trial or, being frog-walked out of his office by the RCMP (if he is stuipid enough to put fakes on his website, why not give them to the RCMP as well).
    Either way, it would be alot better if he was an independent MP when it happens.
    I wish Grewall had joined the Liberals, I think thats where he belongs.

  18. “Don’t be afraid of writing something that sounds stupid in the morning. Stop worrying about being wrong. It’s not about accuracy, it’s not about always being right. That’s what updates and corrections and commentors are for. Blogging is a conversation. Sometimes, in conversations, you blurt out things that offend someone or miss the mark. That’s normal.”
    Yes why worry about the facts, don’t worry that you are wrong.
    1) Mr.Mitchell is a graduate of Penn State University
    2) He regularly does work for the Department of Justice
    3) He regularly does work for the States Attorney’s Office
    4) He regularly does work for Federal Prosecutors
    5) He regularly does work for US Police agencies, DEA, FDIC
    6) Oh Katie? have you even look at who and what the American College of Forensic Examiners really are about? No, guess not, no point in worrying about the facts.
    Silly Smelly Brain Dead Animal.

  19. We have witnessed a national disgrace – the wholescale personal and professional defamation of a fellow Canadian, Grewal…
    It started apparently on April 30 th when Kallia began calling Grewal on the behest of Dusanjj to cross the floor.
    Somehwere in there Inky Mark was scorned when he reported the Liberals were courting him. The media and the Liberals called him liars and screamed for PROOF!
    As the pressure mounted on Grewal they added extortion by Liberal Volpe filing false allegations to the ethics commissioner and the RCMP.
    Then the calls continued and Grewal decided that he would play along and get the proof.
    We have all seen what happened next.
    Shoot the message. Defame the messenger. Belittle him. Lie. Lie. Lie. Invent stories.
    Have the media interview people in his riding. Question his integrity and his entire life.
    Now, the media and Liberals are laughing and sneering that he is going on stress leave.
    So, any Deep Throats out there; anyone who wants to come clean on Liberal corruption – you have witnessed what could happen to you.
    Very sad times indeed. I am humiliated for my country that has been hijacked by deceitful schoolyard bullies.

  20. The same media that can dial up experts to verify tapes have never thought to call in an expert to explain where the Liberal bagman got their hands on so much cash to put in those envelopes.
    They didn’t get it from a bank, folks.
    Oh, remember Miriam Bedard?

  21. In response to the above, penis size would be a competence motion.
    I’m so excited! I’m now an official member too! Just like CSI, except I can use my decades of recording studio experience to add more authority to my findings. WooHoo!
    One question: Why do they hate the Americans until it serves them?

  22. Support Carolyn Parrish – give her a call or e-mail her today!!!
    Montreal Muslim News Action Alert
    Nov 20th, 2004: On November 18th Prime Minster Paul Martin dismissed Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish from the Liberal caucus due to her outspoken statements against George W. Bush and The United States. Specifically, Ms. Parrish appeared on a Canadian political comedy show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, stomping on a little Bush doll and smiling. In addition, she’s called Bush ‘warlike’, said she was ‘dumbfounded’ that so many Americans had voted for him, and said that “that country is completely out of step with most of the free world.” Nothing gets punished in politics like pointing out what is utterly obvious, though, and she was sacked for her comments. Canada’s Globe and Mail posted an online poll on its website which asked the following question: “Do you believe the Prime Minister did the right thing in dismissing MP Carolyn Parrish from the Liberal caucus?”
    The results where: Yes 18420 votes (63 %) No 11037 votes (37 %)
    Despite the media’s attempt to demonize Ms. Parrish and to portray her as some kind of pariah, the poll revealed that thousands of Canadian disagreed with Prime Minister Martin’s decision to dismiss her. Regardless of the media’s attempt to manufacture some kind of pro-American / pro-Bush consensus in this country, the fact is many Canadians have grave concerns over what the Americans are doing on a number of issues and Canada’s increasing cozy relationship with an extremist right-wing, war mongering US President. Canadians have been pounded into silence by the intensifying shrill voices coming from Parliament and the corporate media talking heads who keep harping on about how America is our “friend” and that we must not do anything to jeopardize this as it will only hurt us. Activist and Canadian organic farmer David Orchard mentioned Thursday night during a speech at Concordia University that “Superpowers do not have friends, they have interests and that they do everything thing they can to protect them.” Truer words have never been spoken.
    The real friends of this country are people like Carolyn Parrish who courageously stand up for what is right and are unafraid to speak the truth. For this reason we should support her and others like her who also dare to speak out. If we don’t support people like this and merely abandon them when they are attacked and vilified then others will be also remain silent.
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    This is a result of a random search for the clients of the Liberal Party.
    The enemy within, including “activist and Canadian organic farmer David Orchard”.
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  23. Bulletin: There will NOT be an RCMP Investigation on the Grewal tapes.
    I don’t have the actual transcripts from today’s Hansard but the fix appears to be in to squash an investigation.
    The Liberals House Leader Tony Valeri kept saying ‘ the RCMP are reviewing to see IF they will be conducting an investigation.”
    IF- not when. I would bet money that this one is way too close to Paul Martin. So, who else would wager that there will be NO Investigation and the Ethics Commissioner will find the only wrongdoer as Grewal.
    Karl Marx et al were right – propaganda is the most powerful weapon in the war for the hearts and minds of the people.

  24. “Karl Marx noted that if you repeat a lie often enough, it eventually gets believed. It’s how socialist propaganda works.”
    Apparenty not just socialist propaganda, judging from the posts on this board.
    By the way, Karl Marx said lots of stuff you can argue with, but he never said that. That line is usually attributed to Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief.

  25. Speaking of quotes, you defenders of Grewal should think about this one from Ben Franklin: “He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.”

  26. Thanks Herb for setting us straight on the source. That comment was much like the Grewal tapes – attack the source of the message instead of the message itself.
    Nonetheless, the propaganda of repeating a lie until it becomes accepted as truth seems to be working in Canada. Would not happen if we still had a democracy without a dictator.

  27. Herbs a paid commercial message brought to you by…. your friendly neighborhood Communist Broadcasting Corporation, oops, I mean CBC.

  28. What has added to their clout is their lavishly chronicled connection to Paul Martin, which dates back decades and has earned them extraordinary access to 24 Sussex Drive. With such dizzying ties and a reputation for playing hardball whenever they find their agendas thwarted, almost no one is willing to speak about them on the record, and few of their friends or colleagues return reporters� calls. �If my name is connected to this,� one Bay Street veteran warns, �I�ll come and pour acid over you.�
    The Heather (Reisman) and Gerry (Schwartz) Show
    From Toronto Life magazine.
    Linked from:
    http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
    Why is a Muslim site linking to this story?
    Acid? 24 Sussex Drive. Extraordinary clout. Lavishly chronicled connection to Paul Martin.
    Acid?
    The sleaze/corruption abounding.
    Acid?
    Agendas thwarted?
    The Librano$.

  29. Katie
    thanks for the space here, looks like you geting more and more liberal supporters here.
    Are they comming to hear the truth?

  30. The heat in the red kitchen must be too hot, since the rats are all scurrying out and over to here…

  31. “Yes why worry about the facts, don’t worry that you are wrong.
    1) Mr.Mitchell is a graduate of Penn State University
    2) He regularly does work for the Department of Justice
    3) He regularly does work for the States Attorney’s Office
    4) He regularly does work for Federal Prosecutors
    5) He regularly does work for US Police agencies, DEA, FDIC
    6) Oh Katie? have you even look at who and what the American College of Forensic Examiners really are about? No, guess not, no point in worrying about the facts.”
    None of the above bullshit means a damn thing, my dear gutless ANON.
    No “expert” worth his salt would ever attempt to pass an opinion on a copy of a copy of a tape and call it conclusive. And no honourable publication would promote that sort os worthless opinion.
    Stop pretending otherwise — cause you’re only fooling yourself.

  32. Well, that and the overlooked detail that I didn’t question his qualifications in the original post.
    But don’t let something like eh.. the facts… get in the way of criticizing!

  33. Clear said: No “expert” worth his salt would ever attempt to pass an opinion on a copy of a copy of a tape and call it conclusive. And no honourable publication would promote that sort os worthless opinion.
    ———–
    I think every “expert” who commented on the tapes gave their opinion with the caveat they would need to examine the original tape for their findings to be conclusive.
    But let’s get real here folks — if you think what’s going on here is simply a glitch when the tapes were copied to CD, then you all have some serious intelligence issues to deal with.

  34. There’s a kind of hush…
    today over the overnight turn the story has taken.
    Suddenly the “messenger” is yanked off the Hill and on “stress leave”. Incommunicado, for the moment.
    No doubt while Geoff Norquay regains consciousness after banging his head against the wall on how in hell to find a shred of “positive” in the spin.
    Just for the record, I’m as disgusted with the Liberals as anyone here, but if it’s possible, the CPC handlers who are holding the “Grewel” file folder have managed to disgust me even more.
    Grewel supporters have just got to deal with a sad reality about your “messenger”. The man tried to persuade air travellers to carry a package for him onto a flight for which he was not ticketed. The only silver lining is that it was a Canadian airport, because in the US a Homelands Security team would have locked it down, barred air and ground access for hours, and put F-16s into the airspace overhead. Grewel this morning would be sitting in an ultra-secure environment, and probably deciding which “Welcome to Guantanamo” postcard to use to notify friends and family where he could be found.
    Jesus, how completely stupidly does someone have to behave before the Conservative handlers cut him loose?! And the tapes he rode in with.
    Grewel is crazy. Whatever’s on the tapes has zero value because their source is a lunatic. Memo to Norquay: people who distance themselves from Grewel are not your problem. The Globe and Mail, when it reports this idiot’s ravings, is not your problem.
    Find another message, because as a lever to move the Liberals out the door, this one has turned limper than fresh linguine.
    (Oh, and did I mention that Grewel and his supporters have propellor beanies where other people have brain cases?)

  35. I’m as disgusted with anyone as what has been revealed on the tapes, but whoever has handled this file for the Conservatives should be sacked immediately. I don’t care how Liberal-friendly the media is, the Conservatives have brought this on themselves.
    Someone please tell me that Grewel wasn’t trying to get someone to transport the very tapes he was supposed to have given to the RCMP? Please?

  36. mike… how’s the weather on your planet? I won’t ask what color the sky is, because I suspect it must be red.
    Thanks for demonstrating the reach of the propaganda arm. That was very educational. Now, go back and read the ACTUAL story, not the CBC version.

  37. It’s interesting how often CPC supporters talk about substantive issues, such as corruption of parliament, criminal code sections, etc., as a reason to justify opposing the Liberals. Whereas, Liberal supporters talk about things like bad handlers, bad spin, going off-message, etc, as reasons to oppose the CPC. It seems to me that in politics we should be supporting people who are likely to provide the best government, rather than people who are likely to provide the best marketing about why they should be elected.

  38. Not sure who engineered the recent influx of ham-fisted Lib apologists and skirmishers over here to attempt to spin and obfuscate, but I suppose you should take it as a compliment of sorts, Kate.
    Somebody thinks you and your blog are getting powerful enough to spell trouble for them.
    I say keep up the good work!

  39. It is one diversion after another.
    First the accusations, then the denials, then selected tapes and transcripts, then he came/they came to us/me first, then, after a long wait, more tapes and transcripts, then accusations of tampering, then the explanation of transfer mistakes, then more accusations of tampering, then questions about credentials.
    It does not matter any more. The Conservatives simply blew it. They have to get off this corruption kick. It was only a matter of time before they got caught in their own net.
    The Grewal tapes are a sideshow to the real issue of what kind of government we want. Stephen Harper and the Blogging Tories should be talking about that. There is no point in prolonging the Grewal incident. It simply makes the Conservatives look bad.

  40. “It seems to me that in politics we should be supporting people who are likely to provide the best government, rather than people who are likely to provide the best marketing about why they should be elected.”
    Funny thing about governing this country. You have to market yourself in order to get elected before you get your shot at providing the best government.
    Wistful digression: In my riding last time around, the NDP ran Monia Mazigh. I can’t tell you what a breath of fresh air her campaign was, with its focus on constituent concerns. Granted, the Muslim population in our riding is growing by leaps and bounds, so that particular constituency was the target of much of her messaging. And at the time, her only connection to traditional political machinations was to be victimized by them. But she is articulate and when _she_ said she wanted to serve in order to try to effect changes, you believed her.
    And believing in someone is as much a function of marketing as it is of substance. That’s a sad truth in this brave new world where campaigns are deliberately aimed at no more than sound bites and image to make a Party’s best case. If you can’t grab people right off the bat with a credible “why”, they’re not even going to be in the room to hear you when you get around to your “what”.
    The Harper Conservatives’ recent slogan: “Vote for us. We’re insane, but we’re not corrupt.” just doesn’t work for me, y’know?

  41. Hey Mike and Stint,
    Go troll somehwere else you pair of red liberal
    big government buttlickers.
    Most here would vote for their pet pig before voting RED LIBERAL!!

  42. I very seldom edit out comments. Generally it’s for reasons of profanity or excessive namecalling, and I’d say I”ve probably done it fewer than a dozen times since I started the blog.
    Mike has told me privately he thinks he was a little over the top, and I agree. I’m going to leave the comments up though, as removing them interrupts the thread for no good reason. I’ll leave it up to Mike to add
    any further retractions he wants to, if he wants to.
    Let’s leave it at that.

  43. 1. “Mike has told me privately he thinks he was a little over the top, and I agree.”
    2. “Hey Mike and Stint,
    Go troll somehwere else you pair of red liberal
    big government buttlickers.
    Most here would vote for their pet pig before voting RED LIBERAL!!”
    Obviously, it’s pointless to try to drive the point home that I’ve already made — that I am angrily offended by the Liberals. As a matter of note, I’ve voted in every federal election since the late 1960s, and I never voted Liberal in my life. Not even for Trudeau.
    It’s revealing to read that a lot of people here seem to conclude, in a lame parroting of George Bush, that if you’re not with us you’re obviously one of them.
    Well — wrong.
    What I will acknowledge is that I over-made my other point, that hitching one’s wagon to Germant Gurwal and what’s on those tapes is still shaping up to be one of the deadest horses the CPC can flog.
    But as I said to Kate, after reading what I’ve read about the story, I’m beginnning to fear that Mr Gurwal might have genuinely experienced an episode which made my “insane” comments unkind and unfair. Think Svend Robinson.
    So I unequivocally withdraw them, and apologize to anyone who was offended.
    For the record, I just turned 53 so I get to be a grumpy old man whenever the hell I want. I also get paid to be a Media Analyst and in a typical day will cover about 40 Canadian dailies, 75 blogs, and a couple dozen national and regional radio / TV transcripts — usually two days late in those cases because the service we use only goes “fast” when we need something that isn’t already covered in the print media. So I’ve read a hell of a lot, probably more than a lot of people here, and not just the CBC’s transcripts as someone else here decided had to be the reason my opinion didn’t synch with the majority of people here.
    And in all that material, I see no reason to change my belief that the Conservative Party of Canada harbours the most dismal collection of communicators since… well since the current Prime Minister’s Office, I guess.
    Saying that doesn’t make me a Liberal, but one thing that bothers me is that some people here refuse to make any cognitive conclusion other than — “Criticizer of Conservative spin on a particular story = Liberal”.
    Canada’s a lot bigger than that, folks. And the CPC has got to make its pitch with a lot more spin than “Liberals are bad”. But if you are someone who thinks that telling people that makes me a Liberal, well then you might want to take a long, hard look at that billboard on the wall labelled “problem”, because it’s a mirror.
    I’ll continue to read and enjoy Small Dead Animals. But I’ll continue to shudder at those who demand the deletion of comments just because they disagree with them. Scroll back over the last 45-odd posts — see any other commentaries that might justifiably be considered offensive? Because I sure as hell do.
    Demand their deletion? No way. It’s one of the things that makes the internet a great leveller — the freedom to speak your mind without editorial control. It’s living breathing proof that the simple acquisition of a computer and an internet connection puts the kneejerk whiner with something genuine to say on precisely the same plane as the high-priced policy wonk who pays more in taxes than you or I will take home in half a decade. Some of you probably have never known a life without the internet. I’ve watched it get born, grow and frankly, I love its freedoms.
    If you don’t like a viewpoint, argue it. But don’t demand its deletion. I don’t need to tell you what company that puts you in.
    That being said, I repeat: I’m sorry if I offended anyone with my two posts about Mr Grewal. There were more professional ways to make the same points and, given a few more minutes before whacking the “Post” key, I should have used them.

  44. Instead of attempting to discredit the “experts” who contend the tapes are edited, why not simply quote the “experts’ who have expressed the opinion that the tapes were never manipulated? Why not quote the “expert” hired by the Conservative Party? Why not quote the “expert” hired by the National Post or Sun Media? Gee, I wonder…

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